[email protected] wrote:
Richard Falken wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
In my normal surfing with SeaMonkey, occasionally clicking a link
will open
up an additional tab for a video downloader known to be malware that
looks
similar to, but definitely is not, the one click Youtube video
downloader
extension. Since it is not a pop-up, the pop-up blocker has no
effect. My
impression is that it is not a random occurrence, as it seems to know my
computer, or at the very least it knows that the one-click Youtube
extension is installed, but neither Avast nor Malwarebytes has ever
picked
it up.
I've managed to get it out of Firefox using the Block Site extension.
Unfortunately Block Site is not compatible with SeaMonkey, so I will
need
to do something else to get rid of it. What is a simple way to do this?
If you are under Linux or a similar system, some people keeps a
backlist of
domains in /etc/hosts. Blacklisting a domain there prevents access to
anything in it, by any program.
A similar effect can be achieved on Windows by editing:
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and adding lines like:
127.0.0.1 www.domain.com
Edit the file with a plain text editor (e.g. notepad), not a word
processor. From Vista onwards you need to edit it from an elevated process.
If you add a domain which has already been accessed recently, you may
also need to run, from an elevated command prompt:
ipconfig /flushdns
for the changes to be picked up.
Then, if anything tries to access www.domain.com, it will be directed to
your own PC. Unless you're running a web server on that PC, you'll just
get an error saying the site isn't responding (if you are running a web
server, you'll get whatever that serves - which is under your control
and hopefully harmless).
Mark.
The problem with hosts files is that they do not take wildcards.
Suppose domain.com has several prefixes for several sites. You need to
add a line for each prefix for the hostname. With an ad blocker or a
URL blocker, I can block an entire domain by using *domain.*.
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